Josh Radnor
Josh Radnor (born Joshua Thomas Radnor; July 29, 1974, Columbus, United States), aged 52, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, Not Another Teen Movie and Hunters.
Josh Radnor’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Josh
Josh Radnor’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Josh in the U.S.?
#1703
US rank in 2025
~17,288
Americans share it since 1880
1979
its peak year
In 1974, 493 American boys were registered Josh — 345th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Josh’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Joshua Thomas Radnor, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Josh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Josh apart
The schooling ran through New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Bexley High School.
Josh Radnor was 26 when the work began in 2000.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) and Sanjay Dutt (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Bexley High School and Kenyon College
- Working from
- 2000
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Josh, according to the stars
Core essence
Josh is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Josh is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Josh is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Josh needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Josh wants to be loved
Josh wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Josh gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Josh creates
How Josh makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Josh creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Josh is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Josh is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Josh channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Josh's birth date. Working below.
Where Josh sits
Six lines
Josh’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Josh Radnor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Columbus on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Columbus that night
Computed for 39.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Columbus was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 76.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.
Columbus sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 85% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Joshua Thomas Radnor
- Known as
- Josh Radnor
- Born in
- Columbus, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Josh Radnor's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Josh Radnor: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Josh's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Josh Radnor's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Josh Radnor was born on July 29, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Josh Radnor's birth date, July 29, 1974, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Josh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Josh Radnor's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Josh Radnor combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Josh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.3° orb
Josh’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Josh’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.3° to 1.9° orb
Josh’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.9° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.0° to 6.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.1° to 6.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune5.3° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Josh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°30′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 14°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 9°07′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 6°24′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 8°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.8°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.9°
- Eros square Sun 3.0°
Josh’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Josh’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
More people like Josh
Other screenwriters
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- Chloë Sevigny1974
- Rob Dyrdek1974
- Zach Braff1975
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Jimmy Fallon1974
Born in United States
- Barry WatsonAmerican actor
- Ryan SutterAmerican television personality
- Stephanie MarchAmerican actress
- Ryan AdamsAmerican musician (born 1974)
- Farah StockmanAmerican journalist
- Jennifer LienAmerican actress
More charts like Josh’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Dua LipaBritish singer-songwriter
- Melinda GatesAmerican philanthropist
- Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist
Born in Tiger years
- Will FriesAmerican football player
- Arnold EbiketieAmerican football player
- Grant CalcaterraAmerican football player
Also born on July 29
- Dag Hammarskjöld1905
- Sanjay Dutt1959
- Ginni Rometty1957
- Tim Gunn1953
- Fernando Alonso1981
- Kaliii2000
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Nikola JokićSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
- Noa EssengueFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Nae'Qwan TomlinAmerican basketball player
Other Leo Tiger charts
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
- Dorian HarewoodAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Maurice SchutzFrench actor
- Rémy GirardCanadian actor
Other Gilded Guardians
- Sebastian JosephAmerican football nose tackle
- Jonathan TaylorAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Trent SiegAmerican football player
- Donovan EzeiruakuAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Carolyn KizerAmerican poet
- John TolandAmerican writer
- Horst FaasGerman photojournalist
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Josh’s cards
Computed from July 29, 1974. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223455 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Josh Radnor at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Josh Radnor.
Quick answers about Josh Radnor’s chart
- How old is Josh Radnor?
- Josh Radnor is 52 years old, born July 29, 1974 in Columbus, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Josh Radnor?
- Josh Radnor is a Leo: born July 29, 1974, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Josh Radnor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1974 birth.
- What is Josh Radnor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Josh Radnor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Josh Radnor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Josh Radnor's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
